Growing Conditions
We have been farming organically since the very beginning, and we are blessed with neighbours who follow the same approach. This way, we are working together as a community, so that the mountain, our home, will produce outstanding vine for a long time. There are more and more people realising and appreciating the fact that organic farming is not really about the tools of farming, but about the way you look at the process of making wine: a smaller, but more certain, sustainable yield, and a higher quality wine.
We maintain careful farming practices, and we follow the same approach when we process the grapes. We do not use absorbable plant protection agents, instead, we rely heavily on foliar manure and orange oil, helped out with sulphur. All our grapes are pruned and harvested by hand, so that we are able to follow their life-cycle from the first buds to bottling.
Winemaking
An old Hungarian variety, characteristic of the Badacsony wine region, is virtually nonexistent anywhere else. In the past, it was called the grape of aristocrats, because it takes time and manpower to care for, and it is also a famously low-yielding variety. Since it has only female flowers, it is planted alternately with its pollinating pair, Rózsakő, on the plantation.
It is fermented spontaneously in a steel tank, then matured in barrels for 3 months. It is worth storing a few bottles of it in the depths of the cellar, since, like Furmint, it is one of those rare white varieties that are especially worth aging.
